Ravenwood - 01/19/07 07:00 AM
Does anyone else think its funny that the media actually uses terms like "Big Oil"? And how stupid does someone have to be to think that raising taxes on oil is going to lower the price of gas? (HINT: Businesses don't pay taxes, they collect them... from us.)
If anything it's going to slow domestic production and increase imports, thus making our country more vulnerable to OPEC, the Middle East, and other foreign parties. Thanks Democrats for trying to make us more dependent on foreign oil.
Of course, they only use the word, "Big", in front of a term because "Bad" looks a little too biased.
We apparently can't recognize the bias when cloaked by complex code words like "big".
Posted by: roger at January 20, 2007 9:02 AMRavenwood:
Bear in mind that there really is no such entity as "big oil", at least in the perjoritive sense in which the lame-stream media uses it. In point of fact, the 14 biggest of the top 15 oil companies in the world are "state" entities, lead by (naturally) Saudi Aramco.
Other "state oil companies" like Norway's Statoil or Venezuela's PDVsA make that list. The largest privately owned oil company is ExxonMobil, which is ranked way down the list as Number 15 in the world.
This means that when the lame-stream media is lambasting "big oil", they are in reality shooting themselves in their collectivist foot, since almost all of those "state-owned" oil companies are run by left-wing (if not out-and-out socialist/Marxist) governments.
It would be funny if it weren't so pitiful.
Posted by: Blackwing1 at January 21, 2007 10:38 AMAnd of course nobody with two brain cells to rub together could possibly think that prices would be lower if oil extraction, production and distribution were entirely in the hands of small business entities.
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